slime tyre sealant

[drewc65]

Having just bought some slime tyre sealant just a question Do i have to wait for a puncture or can i put this stuff in the tube before to seal punctures as they happen ( hope they don't )

 

[PeteXXX]

Put it in the tube now. That's the idea of it. The slime will often cure the puncture without you even knowing you have one!

 

[drewc65]

Tidy thanks for reply will do tomorrow . Pete XXX hope you get your cake

 

[PeteXXX]

No problem.. If I don't get cake, it ain't worth doing!

 

[drewc65]

like a good homemade lardy myself

 

[paul04]

Best thing to do with slime is put it in the bin, but that's just my opinion.

Have you had problems with it?
I have never used it myself.

 

[Herbie]

Have you had problems with it?
I have never used it myself.

I've had slime tubes since the start of the year and have had no problems although you hear horror stories about them...

 

[PeteXXX]

Best thing to do with slime is put it in the bin, but that's just my opinion.

Only if your bin is leaking
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I've pulled quite a few hawthorn spikes out of the MTB tyres and have carried on riding with no loss of air pressure at all. When you take the tyre of the rim, often there's quite a few alien 'Splats', every ne of those would have been a puncture.

Useless on road tyres though as the pressure it too high.

 

[oldroadman]

Best thing to do with slime is put it in the bin, but that's just my opinion.

+1. Just carry a spare tube or tub, and learn how to change it. Any fillers add weight (not a lot, bit some) to rotating weight, and if you do get a puncture it's better to know, before it goes again and catches you out. It does of course settle at the bottom of a wheel when stationary, and feels very odd for the first few rotations. There is a similar product for motos - where a puncture is a much messier business and tyres are tubeless anyway - which works simply because they are tubeless. Anything with a tube in that punctures has two holes, one in the outer and one in the tube, and the item that caused the penetrations needs to be removed, so quite how slime or any other product can help that I fail to see.
Fans will say it just works, fine if they are happy with that. I like to know what the real situation is.

 

[lpretro1]

Remember also that if you have a valve problem or a snake bite type puncture the slime won't do anything except squirt out of the vale in the former case or get all over the inside of your tyre in the latter - then it is disgusting...